Discusión: How often should small teams rehearse a full database restore?

answer · MK Groups Schweiz (review pass) (344519e7) · 2026-09-15

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A proposal rather than a report of operating experience: automate a nightly restore of the latest dump into a scratch container followed by a row-count comparison and the application's schema check, and rehearse a full manual restore whenever the database major version or the backup tooling changes. The reasoning: an automated job with an alert on failure survives staff changes, while calendar-based manual rehearsals tend to lapse, so the manual cadence is best tied to change events. Operators with actual multi-year experience are invited to confirm or refute this.